Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 22986, Moses Eaton, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Eaton, Moses Esther
W. 22986.
CONTENTS

6557
New Hampshire
Moses Eaton
of Nashua in the State of New Hampshire who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain How of the Regt commanded by Col. Putnam in the New Hampshire line for 6 months, 3 days Mass
Inserted on the Roll of New Hampshire at the rate of - 20 - Dollars - 33 - Cents per annum to commence on the 5th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8th day of March 1833 and delivered to Moses H. Nuttall Present
Arrears to 5th of March '33 $40.66 Per annum allowance ending Sept '33 10.17 $50.83
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by N.B. Gadsden Clerk, Book D Vol. 18 Page 153

4134
Concord, New Hampshire. Esther Calen widow of Moses Calen
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 and who died in the February 1833 of Chester in the State of N.H. who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Hovey of the Regt. commanded by Col. Whipple in the line for Concord & Camp Mass.
Inscribed on the Roll of Concord N.H. at the rate of 20 Dollars 33 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 th day of Feb. 1839 and Seal S. A. Edward Keene N.H.
Arrears to the 4th of Sep r 1839 $71.15 Semi-annual allowance ending S. No. 10.16
$51.31
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by M. Addison Clerk. Book 4 Vol. 100 Page 39

13867. Declaration
of Morris Eaton
Dublin
Chetham Co
C.I.A.

Declaration,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, COUNTY OF CHESHIRE, ss.
On this Eighteenth day of September 1832 personally appeared in open Court. Before the Hon Aaron Allison Judge of Probate for said County of Cheshire
now sitting, Moses Eaton a resident of Dublin in the county of Cheshire and State of New Hampshire aged seventy nine years last June who, being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated
pt. That immediately on the alarm from Lexington in 1775. in April he volunteered and marched in the company commanded by Captain Mackintosh afterwards Col McIntosh - immediately to the meet the British - that he went from Nedham Mass - left home in the morning of the Lexington Battle - met the enemy in Concord in the afternoon returning from Lexington , at a place then called Nitomy - our company was engaged with them there and five men killed out of it - that he with the company followed them to Boston - and remained there  at Cambridge & Roxbury for other troops to be collected, in  eighteen or twenty days , he thinks twenty , - was hunting guard . -
2 o That when he returned home to Nedham  and he was attached to a company of minute men, liable to be called upon to March upon notice, - until he enlisted as hereafter stated to go to Ticonderoga . - That while in said service as a minute man at the time of the battle of Bunker Hill he was marched to Cambridge - arrived just as the battle was closing and while Charlestown was burning - was from home in this service a few days between 3 days & a week . - That he was also marched to Roxbury in 1776 - soon after the British left Boston in the same company then under the Command of Captain Smith and was employed in repairing the fort on Castle Island - and was in this service fifteen days . -
3 o That in 1776 the last of June or first part of July he enlisted for five months , and marched to Ticonderoga - and served in Captain Stowe's company Lieutenants Bullard and Richards , in Col Wheelock's Regiment of Mass. Militia - was stationed on Ticonderoga side . - remained there the five months - & from the time I left home until I reached home was five months & fourteen days . -
That he was born in Nedham aforesaid in the county, now of Norfolk, Mass State , in the year 1753 - That there is a record of his age on the Town books in said Nedham which he has seen. -

That he lived in Needham when he went into all said services. — has lived since the Revolutionary war — in Needham until about thirty eight years ago — and since then has lived in Hancock, Peterborough & Dublin N.H. and now lives in said Dublin. — was a volunteer in all said services. —
That in his first short services he does not recollect any general officers. — In his last service recollects that General Gates was in Command — that our Brigade Major was Brown — recollects Genl Arnold — recollects that he commanded the shipping on the lake, when it was destroyed. — Recollects that some troops came to Frondoroye from Pennsylvania as he understood — which he supposes were Continental, while he was there. —
Never recd any written discharge. —
That the Rev Levi M. Leonard and Captain Moses Marshall his townsmen & neighbours are well acquainted with me. and I expect will testify as to my veracity and their relief of my services. —
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Wm L. Eaton before me Mason Watson Judge of Probate
We,
hereby certify, that we are acquainted with Mrs. Eaton who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a Soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Rev. L. M. Leonard who has signed a certificate as to the veracity and good belief of the services of the applicant has out of court to avoid responsibility and expense in the employment of Sub-Commissioner and Deputy Marshal a resident of said Dublin who has also signed the same certificate is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Anson Watson Judge of Probate
I, the Prothonotary of the Court of Probate for County of Cheshire do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the Court in the matter the application of Mrs. Eaton for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this eighteenth day of September A.D. 1832
John Parker  Prothonotary of said Court of Probate

5877 Esther Estlin
Declaration
Recd of Moses
NH
July 7 1838
Manned 1789
due 1833
Value $20.33 3/4
amt
Recd Sept 3 '39
M m M m Edwards
Keene NH

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th July 1838. entitled "An Act granting half pay and pension to certain Widows" —
State of New Hampshire Cheshire County ss
On this fifteenth day of May, AD 1837. personally appeared before me Frederick Bassett Judge of Probate in and for said County at her dwelling house, Esther Eaton a resident of Dublin — in the County of Cheshire aforesaid aged Twenty four years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress, passed July 7th. 1838. entitled "An Act granting half pay and pension to certain Widows" —
That she is the widow of Moses Eaton who was a soldier in the Revolution and a Pensioner under the act of 1832. —
That the supposes his services were particularly set forth in her declaration under said act made in said County of Cheshire. — & she refers to that for the support of her claim. —

She further declares that she was married to the said Moses Eaton on the thirty first day of December in the year Seventeen hundred and eighty nine That her husband the said Moses Eaton died on the second day of February AD 1833 That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January Seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz at the time above stated. That she has never since her marriage to any other person but still continues the widow of the aforesaid Moses Eaton. That her maiden name was Esther Ward -
her Esther X Eaton mark
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written
Before me - Frederick Wase, Judge of Probate.
I certify that the above named declarant is unable to attend court, by reason of bodily infirmity.
Frederick Wase, Judge of Probate.

State of New Hampshire Cheshire County ss.
I, Henry Coolidge Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature in and for the County and State aforesaid certify that Frederick Hove was on the fifteenth day of May instant and still is Judge of Probate in said County of Cheshire duly commission- ed and qualified and that his name subscribed to the foregoing is his genuine signature.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Keene this twenty first day of May A.D. 1839.
H. Coolidge Clerk

On this thirty first day of August one thousand eight hundred and eighty nine. The undersigned hereby certifies that the within copy of the record of the death of the late Mrs. Sarah Eaton is a true and correct copy of the original now in the hands of the undersigned.
By Rev. Israel Whitney
I certify that the above is a true copy of records in the book of records of the town of Mendon, in the County of Bristol, State of Massachusetts, with the exception of the date which was inserted in the record in the hand of the late Rev. Israel Whitney.
Rev. Israel Whitney (Clerk of the town of Mendon, Mass.)
I do hereby certify that the above is a true copy of records in the book of records of the town of Mendon, in the County of Bristol, State of Massachusetts, with the exception of the date which was inserted in the record in the hand of the late Rev. Israel Whitney.
Rev. Israel Whitney (Clerk of the town of Mendon, Mass.)
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Bristol ss. to all to whom these presents shall come
Then personally appeared the above named Rev. Israel Whitney, known to me to be the person described in and who executed the foregoing certificate before me.
Israel Whitney (Justice of the Peace)

No 10867
Mrs Eaton.
[Faint, illegible handwriting]
Thomas M. Edwards chyrn Rene County St. H.
15 th Feb. 1833.

BRIEF in the case of Moses Eaton of Hesdin County in the State of New Hampshire . (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? a Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 79 years.  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. As a Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served. Gen.   Years, Months, Days.     In 1775 18 or 20 days private Capt. H. Hinlock   ~ 3 days or a week do - (minute man)   ~ 15 days do. same.   1776. 5 months 14 days do. Capt. Stearns , Col. Whitlock Genl. Gates .  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? Concord (near Lexington)  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Nedham, Massachusetts  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Same proven by Samuel Eaton  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? No 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
A. H. H. Searcy Examining Clerk.

I Samuel Eaton of Hancock in the County of Hillsborough & State of New Hamp- shire being seventy four years of age dispose and say that in A.D. 1775. I lived in the Town of Needham now in the County of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts; that in said year the Militia Company to which I and my bro- ther Moses Eaton belonged (in said Needham) was called to Lexington, and that the said Moses Eaton was at the battle of Lexington and remained there for the term of eighteen or twenty days. — that the said Moses Eaton marched from Needham aforesaid in the year aforesaid to Bunker Hill, at the battle thereof and was absent several days; — that the said Moses was not called for & marched to Roxbury and served fifteen days. The name of the Captain who commanded the Company to which the said Moses Eaton belonged during the term of his service at Lexington & Bunker Hill was Capt. Mackintosh, who was afterwards promoted to the Office of Colonel, and Robert Smith succeeded him in command of the Needham Company. — I also dispose and say that in A.D. 1776 the said Moses Eaton & myself and about twenty others from the said Town of Needham enlisted to serve in the Revolutionary army, that the said Moses Eaton in company with myself and the other enlisted soldiers from said Town were marched to Scarsdale in the State of New York & that to my personal knowledge Moses Eaton served five months and fourteen days in the campaign aforesaid & further dispose and say that Moses Eaton aforesaid is seventy nine years of age and

that during the intervals of service from the battle of Lexington to the time the we went to Sickenbergera he was retained as a minute man and was liable to be called out upon any emergency.
I further depose to say that during the service of the said M c Donough at New York the name of the Captain of the Co to which he belonged was. Capt Stone
1 st Lieut. M c Donough
2 d " " Richards
Ensign " Pitts
Samuel Eaton
Dublin Sept 10 th 1832.
Cushire ss. On the 10 th day of Sept. 1832 personally came Samuel Eaton above named and made oath that the forego- ing deposition by him subscribed is true According to his best knowledge and belief.
before me Jos. L. Appleton Justice of the Peace
We the subscribers inhabitants of the Town of Dublin in the County of Cushire State of New Hampshire depose and say that Samuel Eaton the deponent above named is a man of truth and veracity.
Jos. L. Appleton Justice of the Peace Moses Marshall

Cheshire Co. Sept 26 1832
I Salma Hale Clerk of the Judicial Court in said county certify that Joseph Appleton is a Justice of the Peace in and for said county - I believe the two foregoing sig- natures to be his. In testimony whereof I hereunto affix the seal of said Court in Court of Indenture.
S. Hale - Clerk
For Moses Eaton

Rev WIDOW, &c.
Jan 29, 1910. To Dr Mr Genl U.S. * For Tombstones. Fr.
File No. _____ Esther Olson Widow Olson 1910
Act _____
Index : Vol A , Page 207
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1335
New Hampshire Com
Esther Eaton
widow of Moses Eaton who was a Private
in the N. H. line
for 6 mos & 3 days
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 20 Dollars & 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 4th day of August, 1843 and sent to
Thos A Edwards Knox N. H.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book 4 Vol. 1. Page 16

3846.
Mrs. Hannah L.
Esther Eaton
widow of Moses Eaton
N.H., who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a Private
Reported July 13/1849
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
20 Dollars 33
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 day of July 1849 and sent to
Hon. Jas. Wilson H of R
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 90 Vol. 1

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims , of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Hosea Eaton — — — — — which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? Yes. II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? Yes. III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? — — — — — IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? Yes. V. Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? Yes. VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? Yes. VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? Yes. IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? Yes. X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? Yes.

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? Yes. XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? XIV. †If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? Yes. If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? Yes. Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? Yes. XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?  Yes. XVI. ‡Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? Yes. XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? Yes. 
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
“Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____ For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension.

Mr Moses Eaton and Rebecca Eaton
depose and say that we were well acquainted with Moses Eaton. late of Dublin in the County of Cheshire and State of New Hampshire deceased. That he was a pensioner under the act of 1832. That he died on the — day of February Eighteen hundred and thirty three
That he left a widow Esther Eaton with whom also we are well acquainted who still survives and remains his widow
Rebecca Eaton Mrs. Eaton
Cheshire ss
Subscribed and sworn to
Before me Thomas M'Edward Justice Peace
I Certify that the above deponents are Credible persons
Thomas M'Edward Justice of the Peace —

State of New Hampshire Cheshire County ss.
I Henry Coolidge Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature in and for the County and State aforesaid certify that Thomas H. Edwards is a justice of the Peace in said County of Cheshire duly commissioned and qualified. That his signature within written is genuine
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Keene this twenty five day of May A.D. 1839.
H. Coolidge Clerk
State of New Hampshire ss. Cheshire County ss.
I Henry Coolidge Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Thomas H. Edwards is an acting justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified: that his commission was dated on the eleventh day of June 1836. and will expire on the tenth day of June 1841. and that his signa- ture within written is genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of said Superior Court of Judicature at Keene this twenty eighth day of August 1839.
H. Coolidge Clerk

We Levi W. Leonard, clergyman of Dublin C.R.H. and Capt. Moses Marshall residing in the same Dublin hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Moses Eaton the a resident of said Dublin, and an applicant for a pension under the law of 7 th June 1832 - that we believe him to be seventy five years of age - that he is reputed and believed in the neighbour- hood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution - and that we concur in that opinion. —
Levi W. Leonard
Moses Marshall
State of New Hampshire
Cheshire ss - Sept 10 th 1832
Subscribed and sworn to by the above named Levi W. Leonard and Moses Marshall before me
Joseph Appleton Just Peace
I certify that Rev Levi W. Leonard and Capt Moses Marshall above named are disinterested and credible witnesses.
Joseph Appleton Justice of the Peace.
Cheshire ss. Sept 10 th 1832.
Joseph Appleton is a Justice of the Peace and has a house in his residence H. Beebe

Esther G. Gullon Oct 11 1881

DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of second of February, 1818, entitled "an Act making further provision for surviving widows of soldiers of the Revolution?"
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE, } CHESHIRE COUNTY, ss. }
On this Twenteth day of July 18 48 personally appeared before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, Esther  Eaton — a resident of Dublin in the County of Cheshire aged Eighty five years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the second day of February, A. D. 1818, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War; that she is the widow of M c ees  Eaton — who was a Private — in the Army of the Revolution
and a Pensioner under the act of June 7th 1832 on the N h ampshire Roll, and served, as she believes, as stated in his declaration on which his pension was granted.
That she received a pension of Ninty — dollars — cents per annum, under the act of 17th of June, 1844.
She further declares that she is still a widow.
Attest Anne Piper Nathan Goll
her Esther X Eaton mark
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE, } CHESHIRE COUNTY, ss. }
Sworn and subscribed to, this Twenteth day of July 18 48
Before me, Rufus Piper Justice of the Peace.
I CERTIFY that the above deponent is personally known to me, and that she is the same individual who drew a pension as stated by her in the foregoing affidavit.
Rufus Piper Justice of the Peace.

State of New Hampshire Cheshire County ss.
I, Leonard Wesio, Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature, of said State, for said County of Cheshire do hereby certify that Rufus Piper is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified according to law; that his commission was dated on the seventeenth day of June A.D. 1846 and will expire on the seventeenth day of June A.D. 1851 and that his signature within written are in my behalf genuine.
Given under my hand, and the seal of said Court this twenty fifth day of September A.D. 1848.
Leonard Wesio. Clerk

1466 Scleralian) of Colton Balge)
520:33 pm am

DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of the 3d March, 1843, granting pensions for one year to certain widows who have received pensions under the Act of July 7, 1838.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE, } Cheshire COUNTY, ss. }
On this twenty fifth day of March 18 43 personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Cheshire and State of New-Hampshire, Esther Eaton a resident of Dublin in the County of Cheshire and State of New-Hampshire, aged twenty nine years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed on the 3d of March, 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of Moses Eaton who was a Soldier in the Revolution. And died on the eighteenth day of February A.D. 1833. That she was a pensioner under the act of July 7th 1838 on the New Hampshire list at the rate of Twenty dollars & thirty two cents per Annum and was paid on the Agency Comptroller's State of New Hampshire. She further avers that she is still his widow. Attest as to the foregoing Esther her Eaton mark
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written,
Before me,
Rufus Piper Justice of the Peace.

We Nathan Holt and Rhoda Holt of Pulaski in the County of Pulaski and State of New Hampshire of lawful age depose and say that we were acquainted with Moses Eaton late of Swanzey Dublin deceased. That he died on the eighteenth day of February A.D. 1883 that he left a widow Esther Eaton who still survives and remains his widow Nathan Holt
Rhoda Holt
State of New Hampshire Pulaski County ss
March 25 1883
Subscribed and sworn to before me Rufus Piper Just Peace
I certify that the above deponents are credible persons
Rufus Piper Just Peace

Cheshire P
State of New Hampshire
I General Bero Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County of Cheshire, it being a Court of Record. Certify that Rufus Piper is now of the Masters of said Court for said County, duly confirmed and qualified according to law. And that his signature as before said within written was genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court of Common Pleas this 23 rd day of May, AD 1843.
General Bero Clerk.